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State To Take Control Of Cleveland Schools

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published March 1, 2013 at 12:24 PM EST

The state plans to take control of the Cleveland schools due to their poor academic performance.The Ohio Department of Education will appoint an "academic distress commission" to guide the district out of its academic emergency rating. District officials say the commission is unnecessary, since they're in the early stages of a state-approved turnaround program.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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